Lead Theatre Practitioner – Robotics

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead safe, efficient and evidence-based patient-centred care across the robotic perioperative pathway.
• Coordinate robotic theatre lists and support surgical and multidisciplinary teams during procedures.
• Act as clinical specialist for robotic surgical systems and ensure equipment is ready, maintained and compliant.
• Complete patient safety checks, including WHO surgical safety processes.
• Lead and support theatre staff, complex cases, mentoring, competency development and service improvement.
• Work with the Surgical Services Manager on staffing, training, appraisals and robotics programme development.

Candidate requirements

• NMC- or HCPC-registered practitioner with significant theatre experience, such as scrub, recovery or anaesthetics.
• Specialist training and significant robotic-assisted surgery experience, including the da Vinci Surgical System, and experience with perioperative robotics workflows.
• Clinical leadership experience and strong understanding of patient safety, safeguarding, infection control and clinical governance.
• Scrub Practitioner or Surgical First Assistant qualification applies to scrub leads.
• ENB 998 and/or mentorship course, approved or recognised anaesthetic course, and ILS are listed.
• Strong communication, organisation and mentoring skills; commitment to development of self and others.

Additional experience and familiarity

• Audit, service improvement, clinical teaching, independent healthcare or multidisciplinary surgical team experience is listed.
• Familiarity with theatre scheduling systems and electronic patient records is listed.

Benefits

• Benefits include 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days with service, pension and private healthcare schemes.
• Other benefits include hospital discounts, family-friendly policies, life insurance, wellbeing resources, recognition programmes and training opportunities.